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Re: Blog.ethereum.org Mailing List Incident

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Post by yieldcrv »

PretzelPirate wrote: post #18
chrisandchris wrote: post #2

I'm mostly surprised by the number of subscribers > The threat actor exported the blog mailing list email addresses, which was a total of 3759 email addresses. 3700 addresses doesn't seem like that much at all.

I've been an Ethereum user since it first launched and I've never been on the mailing list. I suspect that's the case for most of the community. I've never felt like I've missed out on information from not being on it.

I tried to write the same thing but apparently its controversial

My best guess is that people need to feel validated that crypto is smaller than its airtime, and that they didn't waste the last decade of their life in an echo chamber of things that went wrong in the space at the exclusion of the things working fine

Re: Blog.ethereum.org Mailing List Incident

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Post by noch »

snapcaster wrote: post #30
noch wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> They're all scams. Interesting. Please link to your investigation of all the airdrops. We've had a decade of them and I think everyone would find such investigations useful. Presumably you've also informed law enforcement in your jurisdiction of your findings.

Can you point to an airdrop connected to a single legitimate (non-gambling) economic activity? I'm with the comment you're responding to on them all being scams just because I have yet to encounter or hear about a non scam one

> Can you point to an airdrop connected to a single legitimate (non-gambling) economic activity?

In the thread above, we discussed airdrops to opensource contributors. Writing code isn't generally considered gambling. Rewarding such contributions could be healthy assuming one believes that opensource programmers should be compensated in some way.

Or do you mean that any venture in life where reward for effort is not guaranteed is gambling? In which case, yes, life is generally a gamble.

Ultimately, it doesn't matter: If you think something is a scam, don't participate. No one is forcing you to claim your airdrops. They'll remain on-chain, unclaimed, forever.

But if you can prove something is a scam, please inform the legal authorities in your region. Almost all law enforcement bodies accept submissions and reports of fraud from the public. Hilariously, crypto companies often airdrop large amounts of funds to citizens who investigate and report frauds and scams.

Re: Blog.ethereum.org Mailing List Incident

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Post by snapcaster »

noch wrote: post #32
snapcaster wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you point to an airdrop connected to a single legitimate (non-gambling) economic activity? I'm with the comment you're responding to on them all being scams just because I have yet to encounter or hear about a non scam one

> Can you point to an airdrop connected to a single legitimate (non-gambling) economic activity? In the thread above, we discussed airdrops to opensource contributors. Writing code isn't generally considered gambling. Rewarding such contributions could be healthy assuming one believes that opensource programmers should be compensated in some way. Or do you mean that any venture in life where reward for effort is not…

So it's just a really stupid inefficient form of charity? You realize you can donate to people without cryptocurrency being involved right?

Re: Blog.ethereum.org Mailing List Incident

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Post by noch »

snapcaster wrote: post #34
noch wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Can you point to an airdrop connected to a single legitimate (non-gambling) economic activity? In the thread above, we discussed airdrops to opensource contributors. Writing code isn't generally considered gambling. Rewarding such contributions could be healthy assuming one believes that opensource programmers should be compensated in some way. Or do you mean that any venture in life where reward for effort is not…

So it's just a really stupid inefficient form of charity? You realize you can donate to people without cryptocurrency being involved right?

Oh gosh.

> So it's just a really stupid inefficient form of charity?

Charity is efficient? Thanks for informing me. I didn't know that.

> You realize you can donate to people without cryptocurrency being involved right?

Oh gee. I didn't know. I assumed that all my life and through all of human history no one has ever donated anything to people until crypto was invented.

Also, I clarified the rationale of these airdrops:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40866952

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40865719

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